Famed New Orleans physician, Dr. Rudolph Matas, a Major in the Medical Reserve Corps, was directed by the U. S. Surgeon General to create a course instructing doctors in new techniques of battlefield surgery, using Charity Hospital, Tulane...

Text, September 8, 1820. Article is entitled "Situation of the Charity Hospital." Records of the number of sick who entered the hospital in the month of August, 1820. One hundred were taken with yellow fever. One hundred and two recovered.

B&W photo, 1970s. Administration building of East Louisiana State Hospital in Jackson, Louisiana. Written on photo, "The hospital was built in 1853, this historic structure has six ionic columns, three stories tall and a cupola with a clock. The...

Text, January 6, 1850. Title of article reads "Luzenberg Hospital. Situated on the Pontchartrain Railroad." Announcement of change in management at a New Orleans hospital from a Dr. C.A. Luzenberg to a Dr. J. Rhodes. Includes prices for different...

Text, January 31, 1825. Article is entitled: Joseph C. Gardette, Dentist. Announcement of services by a Joseph C. Gadette, dentist, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mr. Gardette "respectively tenders his professional services to the Ladies and Gentlemen...

Text, March 4, 1941. Article entitled: Rare machine here produces blood plasma for hospital, first of its kind in state. The article states "the centrifuge machine is the most efficient method of seperating plasma from blood cells yet developed by...

Caption by Maude Reid: "Pictures of the Child Welfare Clinic, City Hall, Lake Charles, 1926 as it looked the first day it began inspection of our town's babies. A few weeks later the walls were painted apple green, additional equipment put in and...